I wish to use ant for building transforming XML documents - for websites, etc. - using Xalan and XSL stylesheets. I am trying to set up dependencies such as if foo.xml is touched, the foo.xml->foo.html build needs to be triggered. But I can't see how to make foo.html depend on foo.xml. javac and copydir have such mechanisms - is there a way to make them more generally available (as happens in makefiles)?
I very much like the idea of ant and am sure that XML is the right foundation for make-like operations.
Peter
